Moon phases are the same all over the world on the same night. With a 200mm and 2X on a crop body, he's at 640mm. Not a real lot of magnification for the moon. The moon's image on the sensor plane would be about 6mm diameter, but he could have cropped it a lot. I would guess it's been sharpened quite a bit. Looks entirely doable to me. Nice shot.

No no i did some tests and with a 300 and 1.4x at f8 on tripod ISO 100 and lots of PP my image is not that sharp... I cant just belive him... Any good PP method you know? What i do is no NR raw from DPP then little sharpening, into PS. In PS CS5 i do levels layer select aplly, crop and then USM for overall contrast. Then on a new layer high pass filter and mask over where i want it sharper with hard light blending mode... Is that any good?

xclusix wrote in post #12040863No no i did some tests and with a 300 and 1.4x at f8 on tripod ISO 100 and lots of PP my image is not that sharp... I cant just belive him... Any good PP method you know? What i do is no NR raw from DPP then little sharpening, into PS. In PS CS5 i do levels layer select aplly, crop and then USM for overall contrast. Then on a new layer high pass filter and mask over where i want it sharper with hard light blending mode... Is that any good?

wow thats a lot of PP i just took the shot cropped it adjusted the exposure settings then sharpened a little could be why mine i snot so sharp.

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